Find your perfect word!
Definition beggar
Etymology
From Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar (“beggar”), from Middle English beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg + -ar.
Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard); the order is said to be named after the priest Lambert le Bègue of Liège (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).
Noun
beggar (plural beggars)
- A person who begs.
- A person suffering from extreme poverty.
- (colloquial, sometimes affectionate) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
Verb
beggar (third-person singular simple present beggars, present participle beggaring, simple past and past participle beggared)
- (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
- (transitive) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
Results 118 Words with the letters BEGGAR
14 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
13 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
12 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
11 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
10 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
9 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
8 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
7 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
6 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
5 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
4 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
3 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
2 letter words with the letters BEGGAR ↑
You can also try words with the phrase BEGGAR, words starting with the letters BEGGAR, or words ending in the letters BEGGAR.
Favorites Searches
Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,
Some random searches: Words with the letters SJTA, Words with the letters JZHPI, Words with the letters OO, Words with the letters PEEME,